Texas ranks 3rd in 2013 Q3 Personal Income Growth

AUSTIN –  Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, issued this statement today on Texas’ November  2013 employment report: “Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest state employment report and Texas once again proves it’s America’s economic engine.”    [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_original”,”fid”:”12725″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”801″,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”1205″}}]] “According to the report, Texas’ economy...

TPPF Policy Orientation panel to discuss immigration reform and Texas

The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host the policy panel “Immigration Reform: A Solution for Texas is a Solution for the Nation” at the 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Thursday, January 9 at 11:10 a.m. at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol. 

TPPF Policy Orientation panel to address improving property rights protection in Texas

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Economic Freedom will host the policy panel “Is Texas Finished Improving Its Protection of Property Rights?” at the 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Thursday, January 9, at 3:25 p.m. at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol.

TPPF Policy Orientation to host panel on local school choice programs

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Education Policy will host a panel entitled, "Local Choice: A New Idea for Freedom in Texas Education," at the 12thAnnual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Wednesday, January 8, at 3:25 p.m. at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol. "Through the years, passing a statewide school...

TPPF Policy Orientation to host panel on local school choice programs

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Economic Freedom will host the policy panel “Is Texas Finished Improving Its Protection of Property Rights?” at the 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Thursday, January 9, at 3:25 p.m. at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol. “While Texas has made progress protecting property rights...

TPPF’s Kathleen Hunker authors piece for the Cornell International Law Journal Online

AUSTIN – Kathleen Hunker, policy analyst with the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Economic Freedom, article titled Britain's Road to Constitutional Gridlock, American Style appears in today's Cornell International Law Journal Online. The piece discusses how the United States government shutdown was the predictable, if not intended, result of a constitutional system that views competitive struggles between government...

TPPF’s Kathleen Hunker authors piece for the Cornell International Law Journal Online

TPPF Policy Orientation panel to discuss the Texas Model approach of attracting business

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Economic Freedom will host the policy panel “Economic Development: Texas Style” at the 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Friday, January 10, at 9:45 a.m. at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol.

TPPF releases report on reviving restorative justice in Texas

Derek Cohen, policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Effective Justice, today released the report entitled "Reviving Restorative Justice: A Blueprint for Texas," in which he explains how Texas' current criminal justice system identifies the state as the victim of a crime, and that the actual victim plays too small of a role in the process. As a solution to this legal tradition, Cohen presents the case for Texas to adopt the restorative justice model, allowing the objective of the system to be the restoration of justice to the victim. 

ICYMI: TPPF’s Rollins and Davidson in National Review Online on the left’s attack on free speech

AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation President and CEO Brooke Rollins and Health Care Policy Analyst John Davidson authored The Left’s Coordinated Assault on Free Speech in Friday’s National Review Online. From the piece: “Recently the left-wing British newspaper the Guardian published funding proposals that were privately submitted to the State Policy Network (SPN) — a nonprofit group that coordinates state-level efforts to enact free-market reforms — by state-based think tanks. The Guardian justified its actions on the grounds that the public needs ‘full and fair access’ to the conservative groups’ plans, ‘to allow the public to reach its own conclusions about whether these activities comply with the spirit of non-profit tax-exempt charities.’ … “But the real purpose of the Guardian’s hit piece is far more disturbing than any corporatist conspiracy theory: It is meant to undermine the freedoms of expression and association that all Americans enjoy under the First and Fourteenth Amendments." Brooke Rollins and John Davidson are available to further discuss how free speech is threatened. To schedule interviews please contact Kristen Indriago at [email protected] or 512.472.2700. Their media expert guides can be accessed here http://bit.ly/1h86u7s andhttp://bit.ly/1cqkaGx, respectively.  The article can be read in its entirety here: http://bit.ly/1kG8fsH.

TPPF’s Policy Orientation panel to focus on criminal-justice reform in Texas

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice will host the policy panel “A Second Act for Criminal Justice Reform” at the 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Thursday, January 9 at 2:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol. 

Rising Tax Revenues Should Go Towards Lowering Taxes

Rising Tax Revenues Should Go Towards Lowering Taxes